Maker James Brown is continuing to iterate on the idea of turning LEGO’s iconic computer bricks into actually-functional devices, taking what was once a simple animated display and making it a fully self-contained computer capable of playing Doom — using an accelerometer as its input.”I hooked up the accelerometer, so Doom is now ‘playable’ entirely

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Computer Science education at the undergraduate level is all over the place even in most renowned universities. The faculty direct a firehose of knowledge at the students, without considering how much then intake and create a sink or swim culture to weed out students, instead of actually trying to teach and make them learn. Even…

Prepare yourself for a weekend of wobbly power connectors and Daley Thompson digit-mashing: tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. The ZX Spectrum, released on April 23, 1982, was a follow-up to Sinclair’s ZX81. Referred to as the ZX82 or ZX81 Colour during development, the final product arrived with either 16KB or…

In this post I want to write about probably the most powerful text editor there is: Emacs and how to set it up so you can begin programming and live coding with Overtone in no time. Many users would disagree and argue that vi/Vim is the king of editors, and I’m not going to get…
I'd like to help my daughter learn some reading/math/science concepts while also getting used to the keyboard/mouse. I found “Little Mouse's Encyclopedia” via the educational category on Steam, and she's been enjoying exploring, but she doesn't read well enough to use the encyclopedia entries. That's about the level she's at.Any ideas would be appreciated!

Researchers with the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering have shown for the first time how to design the basic elements needed for logic operations using a kind of material called a liquid crystal—paving the way for a completely novel way of performing computations. The results, published Feb. 23 in Science Advances, are…
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